Bosnia and Herzegovina, sentence 28
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According to philologist Anton Mayer, the name Bosna could derive from Illyrian *Bass-an-as, which in turn could derive from the Proto-Indo-European root, meaning 'the running water'.
Who acts: Anton, Bass · What happens: accord, derive, as, mean, run · To what, where: Illyrian, as, turn, running water
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Bosnia and Herzegovina». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anton, Bass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 philologist | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | philologist | philologist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Anton | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Anton | Anton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 derive | nsubj |
| 5 | Mayer | Mayer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Anton | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 derive | nsubj |
| 9 | Bosna | Bosna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 name | appos |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 derive | aux |
| 11 | derive | derive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Illyrian | case |
| 13 | Illyrian | Illyrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 derive | obl |
| 14 | * | * | PUNCT | _ | 19 as | punct |
| 15 | Bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 as | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 as | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 as | det |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 an | punct |
| 19 | as | as | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 derive | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 derive | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 derive | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 turn | case |
| 23 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 derive | obl |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 derive | aux |
| 25 | derive | derive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 as | conj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 root | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 root | det |
| 28 | Proto | Proto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 root | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Proto | punct |
| 30 | Indo | Indo | X | _ | 32 European | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Indo | punct |
| 32 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 root | amod |
| 33 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 derive | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 meaning | punct |
| 35 | meaning | mean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 derive | advcl |
| 36 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 water | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 water | det |
| 38 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 water | amod |
| 39 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 meaning | obj |
| 40 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 water | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 derive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | derive | could | Anton accord philologist | Illyrian | the name nsubj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from illyrian=Material | |||
| 3 | as | Bass | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | derive | could | Bass not said here | a as | turn | from the Proto European root | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent which=Result from root=Material | ||
| 5 | mean | gerund | Bass not said here | the running water | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 6 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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